Within five days of exposing an Ivanti Sentry management surface to the internet, a controlled sensor recorded ten distinct operators attempting to exploit CVE-2026-10520, the CVSS 10.0 pre-authentication command-injection flaw that CISA had added to its Known Exploited Vulnerab…
CVE-2026-10520
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- 105 minTen Operators, One Ivanti Sentry Command-Injection Endpoint
Security Advisory 2026-008 Ivanti has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in its Sentry products, including an OS command injection flaw (CVE-2026-10520) and an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-10523). These vulnerabilities allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to achieve root-level remote code execution and create arbitrary administrative accounts on affected devices.
More Evidence That Words Don't Mean What We Thought They Meant (Ivanti Sentry Pre-Auth OS Command Injection CVE-2026-10520) Ivanti Sentry is affected by a critical pre-authenticated OS command injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-10520) and an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-10523). The command injection flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve root-level remote code execution by sending specially crafted XML payloads to the /mics/api/v2/sentry/mics-config/handleMessage endpoint.